TED ESKİŞEHİR COLLEGE / 10-C
To Colonize or Not to
Colonize Other Planets?
Ada Doğa ARSLAN
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Colonizing other planets to save the resources ending on Earth has
become a crucial topic. This subject mostly brings the question,
“Do we have the right to colonize other planets?” to our minds. To
answer whether we should colonize or not, we need to think about
our reasons. To me, we don’t have adequate and valid reasons to
colonize other planets.
Plenty of scientists believe that there’s only one solution for
humanity to survive, and that’s to move to another planet or
colonize them. For instance, one of the most famous physicists
Michio Kaku states: “Either we must leave the Earth or we will
perish.” However, the obscurity of other life forms living on those
planets makes this decision take a non-ethical turn. If there are
any other life forms, colonizing their planet would mean turning
them into slaves. Not only the lack of materials but also expenses
make this harder to achieve.
On the other hand, this crisis is caused by humans ruining the
earth by polluting it and using sources inconsistently. Even
though this topic comes out due to human actions, we are still
debating about our right to ruin another planet. The consumption
of natural sources is not something we can stop but our ways of
consuming them can make a difference. Besides that, there’s no
explanation for polluting the Earth.
To sum up, colonizing another planet can save humanity because
of the need for natural sources. However, whether this is ethical or
not should be discussed. Also, if we consider humans as the cause
of this crisis, destroying another planet would be wrong.